GEORGETOWN, Guyana (AP) — Officials say a U.S. team is expected soon in the South American nation of Guyana to probe the crash of a Boeing 737 jetliner that all 163 people aboard survived.

Authorities so far have given little idea about the cause of Saturday's crash. The Caribbean Airlines plane ran off the end of a runway at Guyana's main airport and broke in two. About 30 people had to be treated at a local hospital, including the pilot.

The airline is largely owned by the government of Trinidad and Tobago and its prime minister has visited the crash site. Kamla Persad-Bissessar says she is worried that the accident will hurt tourism to the Caribbean, a region that depends heavily on the industry.

The sharks only stopped eating people because he put them to sleep orating to them about the vast depth of his keen wit. It was geographically appropriate because his description was that the depth of his knowledge was Challenger Deep, which was only a few miles away.

Boy you got a million of them. Stop it! Stop it!... our collective sides are splitting.

Did you really just mention wits in this thread? As in, wits that aren't half?

Right you are chap. Some of our usual half wits HAVE already chimed in in a benign hardly significant thread just because it's mine. They desperately hope this could be a chance to beat down of Frankie for all the time they've been beaten in wit and logic. It's a human instinct. Low human instinct but still one. Some of us have evolved out of it to a reasonable degree. Some will be lucky if their great grandchildren get there.

It's pathetic and petty, really. But the dumb does not recognize pettiness.

...and there it is. In every thread I've ever seen where Frankie is getting his ass handed to him (a lot, and usually in DC) he eventually goes to the "intellectual superiority" remarks which make it all the more funny.

He is so damn entertaining.

Meh, I'm used to mass assaults by the witless. They happen in almost all of my CP participations. You know why, Sherlock? Because not one of you (and I use the word 'you' selectively here) can stand up to me in a logical debate alone.

Getting surrounded by howling monkeys with nothing to say but making fart sounds and throwing shit counts as me having my ass handed to me. I got it. Thanks genius.

There goes that dreaded phrase again. So far the only ones who are SURE are the ones who are picking an unnecessary fight over a minor "here's a piece of news" thread. I have merely suggested A possibility, out of many possible scenarios. But the rest of you are so sure that only your scenario is true, possibilities of structural fatigue, material oxidation, in-flight forces, and neglect by the maintenance folks in Trinidad be damned.

See, this is why I like you. You can at least acknowledge decent humor. I disagree with virtually everything you stand for politically and anytime logic is necessary but at least you have a good sense of humor.

See, this is why I like you. You can at least acknowledge decent humor. I disagree with virtually everything you stand for politically and anytime logic is necessary but at least you have a good sense of humor.